CORONAVIRUS/MICHIGAN/TRUMP ADMIN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Stanford University appeared to distance itself from Dr. Scott Atlas, a prominent member of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, following his remarks that residents of Michigan should ‘rise up’ against the state’s new coronavirus restrictions…
Atlas is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative-leaning think tank based at the university. He’s currently on leave and is serving as an adviser to President Trump…
The episode seems to have renewed tensions between the Trump administration and [Gov. Gretchen] Whitmer, who the FBI said was the target of a kidnapping plot by men linked to a far-right militia group earlier this year.”
-Brakkton Booker, “Stanford University Appears To Distance Itself From Scott Atlas After ‘Rise Up’ Tweet,” npr.org, Nov. 17, 2020